Hot hot hot!

[boyo bach]

I love hot food and basically put tabasco on everything! Does anyone know any kind of recipe for your own chilli sauce (that can keep)? Or anythning to do with HOT! Cheers :-)

[whiffey]

HOT !! Same as you, I am addicted to chilli. I have never tried doing homemade, but if I were going to I'd blend the hottest habaneros I could find (e.g. Fatali) with lemon juice and a bit of water and vinegar to taste. However, there are SO many excellent products out there I've never bothered. I'm in South London and there is a wide choice in the local ethnic shops. My favourite is currently a Turkish chilli relish.

Encona is reliable, but try Sea Isle or Baron if you see them.

I buy hot habaneros in season from here:

http://www.southdevonchillifarm.co.uk/

boyo, I put chilli sauce on every meal except spag bol. A favourite is tinned kippers with 2 or 3 different chilli sauces, smothered in white pepper, accompanied by a Grand Prix !

Have you tried the Hot Tabasco ?

[boyo bach]

Cheers whiffey! Yes, the Hot Tabasco, cayenne and chilly flakes are a staple in my cupboard. I thought about doing something like you suggested as a change really.

If I decide to go adventurous I shall let you know how I got on! Thanks again...here's to burning lips!!

[whiffey]

boyo, I used to cook my own phalls. I gave up primarily because the curry houses do it so much better, but also because I gave myself a nasty fright. I cooked a chicken 'curry' - fried the onions in ghee with garlic until charred, browned the chicken, then added about 5 chopped Fatali habaneros (see that website - they are SO HOT), masses of Rajah Extra Hot Chilli powder, garam masala, you name it I added it. It was a fiery delight of course, but I was woken up in the night with serious abdominal pains, I mean sweating and moaning type pain. I had to go and stand in the cold air in the garden to cool down, and gulped a huge brandy because I was in a panic and thought I was dying. So never again.

My favourite takeaway does a brilliant Naga King Prawn Phall, which along with Bombay Aloo phall hot and vegetable rice is a Saturday night treat. I buy in bulk and freeze it down (which by further breaking down the spices and chilli seeds makes it even hotter).

Sorry I go on a bit, but chillis are my lifeblood !

[boyo bach]

Well glad you're still with us!! That website is really good, tempted with the giftpack...a gift from me to me!!!

[heathfield]

One of my favouites is West Indian Hot Pepper Sauce with just a tad of tomato ketchup mixed in. Adds a flavour to the heat. Mixing in some hot pepper sauce to Thousand Island dressing makes it much more interesting too.